Healthcare Innovation June 8, 2020
Colorado Medicaid IT officials outline their approach to overcoming the obstacles they face, including a budget crisis related to the COVID pandemic
State Medicaid agencies face a daunting challenge to meet federal deadlines for making their data available to third-party developers through standard application programming interfaces (APIs). During a recent presentation, Colorado Medicaid IT officials outlined their planned approach to overcome the obstacles they face, including a budget crisis related to the COVID pandemic.
The compliance deadline for the patient access API and provider directory API provisions is January 2021, just a few short months away. However, CMS has released guidance saying it would exercise enforcement discretion for a period of up to six months with connection to those two...